Thursday, 11 February 2016

Re: Strongswan merge for Xenial

Hi Ryan, On 2016-01-22 11:54 AM, Ryan Harper wrote: > Hello, > > I've been working on merging[1] strongswan from Debian into Ubuntu for > Xenial. We've not completed a merge with Debian for some time (Feb 19, > 2014 was the last time). Ubuntu has been using version 5.1.2 since then > but Debian and upstream have moved on. Ubuntu has collected a large delta > between Debian and with this merge I'm attempting to reduce the delta to > ease merging in the future. In particular, the major change would be to > no longer create a package per-plugin and instead use the more general > standard/extra plugin packages as in Debian. Each plugin has an > individual conf file which controls settings including whether to load or > not. Currently the default template conf files default to loading plugins > if present; it's not clear to me if this is a sensible default or if we > should left them off by default. Note that Strongswan doesn't currently > have something akin to apache's a2enmod and a2dismod meaning users will > need to edit conf as needed. During this merge, I've also been using a > git-based merge workflow and the git repo tracking it is available here[3]. > > Since the delta is large, I want to make sure that we document the changes > and provide opportunity for users of Strongswan in Ubuntu to provide > feedback and comments on this merge. I've updated the package and placed > it in a PPA[2].

Once more update in the PPA[1]; this time with working dist-upgrade with all plugins